Anna Mae Duane
English
Assistant Professor
PhD., Fordham University
M.A., Fordham University
B.A., Fordham University
Office: Torrington Campus
Phone: (860) 626-6811
Fax: (860) 626-6847
Email:anna.duane@uconn.edu
Areas of Specialty / Research Interest
Colonial and Antebellum American Literature and Culture, African American Literature, Childhood Studies, Disability Theory
Courses Taught
Engl 113 Renaissance & Modern Western Literature
Engl 276W Black American Writers I
Engl 277W Black American Writers II
Biography
Selected Publications / Exhibitions / Awards
Articles
“An Infant Nation: Childhood Studies and Early America,” Blackwell Literature Compass Online Journal, Editor, Shirley Samuels. www.literaturecompass.com (Winter 2004).
“Reclaiming Black Motherhood in Frank J. Webb's The Garies and their Friends,” African American Review, 38. 2 (Summer 2004).
“Casualties of the Rod: Rebellious Children, Disciplining Indians and the Critique of Colonial Authority in Puritan New England,” Messy Beginnings: Postcoloniality and Early American Studies, eds. Malini Schueller and Edward Watts (New Brunswick: Rutgers University Press, 2003).
"Race and American Literature and Culture," Historical Dictionary of the Gilded Age, eds. Leonard Shlup, James G. Ryan. (Armonk: Sharpe Publications, 2003).
"'Confusions of Guilt and Complications of Evil': Hysteria and the High Price of Love at Mansfield Park." Studies in the Novel, 33.4 (Spring 2002): 402-415.
Book Reviews
Review of Marianne Noble, The Masochistic Pleasures of Sentimental Literature, (Princeton UP, 2000.) in Novel: A Forum on Fiction 33.2 (Spring 2000): 256-258.
Review of Mary Field Belenky, Lynne A. Bond and Jacqueline Weinstock, A Tradition that Has No Name,
(Basic Books, 1997) in Journal for the Association for Research on Mothering 1.1 (1999): 219-220.
Review of Eds. Todd Taylor and Irene Ward, Literacy in the Age of the Internet, (Columbia UP, 1997.) Book of the Month, November 1999. Research in Cyberculture Studies Website.
http:// otal.umd.edu/~rccs.
Community / University Service
Director, Tri-Campus American Studies Talks Fall 2005-
Member, Advisory Board, Litchfield County Writers Project, UConn, Torrington, Fall 2004-
Member, Editorial Board, Blackwell Literature Compass Online Journal, American Section, 2004-
President, American Studies Association, New York Metro Area Chapter, 2002-2004
Secretary, American Studies Association, New York Metro Area Chapter, 2000-2002
Organizer, NYMASA Salon Talks in American Studies, 2000-2002
Keynote Speaker Search Coordinator, Fordham University Graduate Conference, April 2000
(May 2006)
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